The West Australian Club Directory has all the clubs that play in the top four divisions in Western Australia in 2008. This includes the semi-professional Premier League and First Division, plus the amateur Premier League and First Division.

We have included each club's home ground, colours, semi-professional divisional and cup honours (amateur honours not included) and known league positions from over the years.

The top league in Western Australia has had various names over the past four decades. The Soccer Federation of Western Australia (SFWA) was formed during the 1960 season when eight clubs broke away from the Western Australian Soccer Football Association to form their own semi-professional First Division. The name of the top flight then changed to the State League in 1964 and stayed this way till the controversial eight team Super League was established in 1988.

The 1989 season saw the Second Division re-titled the Premier League, even though it wasn't the "Premier" competition in the state, as it was still one division behind the Super League. The Third Division and Fourth Division kept their names, however this was changed in 1990 when the two lower leagues merged to form the "First Division" which was really the "third" strongest league behind the Super and Premier Leagues.

The start of the 1991 season saw no change in the league names, however later in the season the Super League clubs broke away from the SFWA to form the Professional Soccer League (PSL), which was commonly known as the Pro League that year.

1992 was one of the most confusing years in WA soccer history, with 2 semi-professional organisations that would last for the whole season. Over the 1991/92 summer most clubs resigned from the SFWA to form lower divisions of the Professional Soccer League. However twelve clubs stayed loyal to the SFWA who were only able to run one league competition, which was in essence the strongest league behind the PSL top flight.

Common sense prevailed in 1993 when the SFWA and PSL merged to form the new Professional Soccer Federation, later to be called Soccer West Coast. The name of the top league wasn't changed again till 1996 when Soccer West Coast re-titled the First Division as the new Premier League. The Second Division was dropped after that season to only have the Premier League and First Division remain, which is what we still have today under the new Football West banner.

The divisional changes and honour lists for each club in the directory shows the current names that would be used today (top league the Premier, the next strongest the First Division and so on).

Note: Due to the Federation split of 1992, there were two leagues that were of Semi-Pro First Division standard that season. Clubs playing in one of those two league during that year will either have PSL (Professional Soccer League) or SFWA (Soccer Federation of WA) next to their 1992 league position to indicate which league they were playing in at the time. Championship play-offs decided overall positions in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1998 in the semi-professional Premier League and 2001, 2002 in the semi-professional First Division.